Yeah, they have to come to terms with that. Maybe they have already, I don't know. You'd think that the last 10 years would have been a little humbling.
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Yeah, they have to come to terms with that. Maybe they have already, I don't know. You'd think that the last 10 years would have been a little humbling.
I'd love to know if the rumors were true that he would have left for USC last year had he been offered (who could blame him).
I think there is a 0.00001% chance he would leave for Nebraska. Why? Admin/boosters are a trainwreck and he can win as much here as he can at Nebraska.
I have a really hard time buying that rumor...Cali is LA is the complete opposite of what CMC seems to like.
If a football dynasty can be built in Lincoln, Nebraska, and one once was, there is zero reason the same cannot be achieved in Ames, Iowa. None.
I don't buy that rumor either. However, I do buy the rumor that he would have left for ND if that had been offered.
I completely buy Campbell is gone if he gets a call from South Bend, Columbus, Ann Arbor, or State College. Anywhere else? Not sure he'd see that as anything but a lateral move or a terrible geographic and cultural fit (e.g., USC or any of the SEC schools). He seems serious about staying in the Midwest.
Until then, though, and that day may never come, here he is.
Tom Osborne decided early on, he could not compete with the big dogs by playing the same game they did. That is how he ended up with that triple option offense. It was different. They also took every player they could get, grades were irrelevant, rap sheet irrelevant. They had 150 players on their teams. He did things differently and it paid off.
I'm not sure anyone can really do the same thing today, is my point. Fred kind of did it with basketball, took in a bunch of misfits who were really good players and got them to sit a year. He essentially invented turning your program around with transfers. Now, everyone does it, so it couldn't be sustained.
In football, I think CMC switched things up with Heacock and his defensive schemes and that's what really helped to make us competitive in the Big 12. But with scholarship limits, NIL, transfer portal, political correctness (by that I mean the things Osborne got away with are not acceptable today, well unless you are a private school like Baylor), I just don't know that the opportunity is there to build a dynasty.
But, I'm fine with having the teams we have. In football, we beat top 10 teams and go to bowl games. In basketball, the last ten years, we also beat top 10 teams and win conference tournaments and make the Sweet Sixteen. Women's basketball, we beat Baylor probably more than anyone. We are doing great.
There just seemed to be so much smoke about USC---I'm not sure I believe it was total crap. The USC rumors were much more than the other schools in previous years. And he acted a bit different last year. I agree that it always seemed like a bad fit, but plenty of coaches take 'bad fit' jobs---none of them think a job really is a bad fit.
My theory is that he really listened to schools last year. I'd bet that he talked to USC and details of the job were discussed. I'm not sure that he told them 'yes', but I'd bet the talks were pretty far along.
I would be interested in why we never heard about the extension that was supposed to happen after the USC job was filled, but before Notre Dame opened up.
As I said before, I sort of think that last year we might have dodged the biggest bullet. I'm hopeful he came out of it with the itch satisfied and happy where he is.
And the walk on program. There is not one thing that's unique, innovative, or (Tom Osborne style) illegal about UNL anymore. They are Iowa with a sh*tty record.
Matt Campbell is better than that.
Nebraska was pretty dynastyish before Osbourne got there, fwiw.
I could see them looking at Art Briles, though he would have to hire a really good defensive coordinator.
They were good before, but I think it's fair to give credit to Osborne for creating the last (modern?) Husker dynasty. He joined Devaney's staff in 1962 and re-invented their offense and retired 35 years later winning national championships 3 out of the last 4 seasons.
However I suspect he saw the writing on the wall at the end since many of the strategies he developed to build Nebraska into a powerhouse were becoming outlawed (or outdated), so the talent pool of available players started shrinking.
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Nothing like thinking your column is clever and it is not. What a loser.
I agree. I don't think it's an impossibility for someone to build another dynasty in Lincoln, but it would require new strategies that could likely equally be implemented/achieved in Ames.
Unless Warren Buffett decides to pay-to-win haha
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One of the contractors on site today was from Omaha. We talked about Nebby and Frost. He was very grounded. Even said go Cyclones when he left.
